Comments on: Friday Links (28 Mar 08)

By: Jeff P

Jeff P — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:17:30 +0000

I hope Huber does well for you, I hated it that KC gave up on him so easily.

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:19:40 +0000

42: Yes, it does “change things” because it is not just the Padres who are effected by Petco. The visiting teams offense is suppressed as well.

By: Ray Lankford

Ray Lankford — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:37:15 +0000

If a good offense plays in a park that makes them look bad, are they still a good offense?

The Padres were great on the road but they were still the worst team at home and they were in the bottom half overall. Petco provides a great excuse (reason?) for that but does it really change things?

By: Schlom

Schlom — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:46:17 +0000

I just read the espn.com preview of the Padres:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/preview08/team?team=sdg

It’s like they go out of their way to get things wrong! It has the usual dumb things — the Padres offense sucks, they need a power hitter, other teams hit homeruns in Petco, etc.

Speaking of espn.com, they had their baseball “expert” predict major league baseball standings. Only Keith Law’s predictions had the teams average exactly 81 wins. Kurkjian and Stark picks averaged 82 wins (talk about optimistic!) and Buster Olney and Steve Phillips were just slightly over 81 (so they might have just had an adding error). To me the surprising thing is that Phillips wasn’t the worst offender.

By: Mark Ase

Mark Ase — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:58:30 +0000

It’s too bad about Davis, I hope he pulls through it ok.

I know his dad says its only a 1 month rehab but the team says it is indefinite.

They are going to be lucky to get more then 10 starts from him in 2008.

Mark

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:31:24 +0000

4, 6: Notice Bryk didn’t say anyting about Chalk’s hitting.

By: Ben B.

Ben B. — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:21:17 +0000

This is certainly not the way we want to gain an advantage in the division:

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/112425

Doug Davis has thyroid cancer. It sounds like they should have it under control, and Davis is only going to miss about a month, so that is good.

By: Ben B.

Ben B. — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:04:27 +0000

32, 34: Whoa, that is very confusing. I think my key points were: Peavy will probably regress some this year, Young will probably regress some from his first half but hopefully will be a little healthier and so be overall more valuable, Wolf will hopefully be better than Germano, and Padre right fielders were terrible last year mainly because no one hit while OG was out. And overall the team looks slightly improved from last year through my rose colored glasses.

By: LynchMob

LynchMob — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:08:45 +0000

Padres at Angels tomorrow (Sat @ 6pm PDT) will be available on MLB.TV for free … seems worth checking out …

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080328&content_id=2462755&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

By: LynchMob

LynchMob — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:58:52 +0000

33 … how about a haiku?

Strange run for Nunez
A day in the sun, then an
Injured April Fool

… bring it!